by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 13, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
December 13, 2015 – Ottawa – The climate change treaty finalized today in Paris is “historic,” said Okalik Eegeesiak, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) “but we recognize the compromise in the text.” Eegeesiak led the circumpolar Inuit delegation to the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 9, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
December 9, 2015 – Paris, France – Voices from some of the world’s coldest and hottest regions were raised in unison today calling for ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets that would limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The call...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
December 8, 2015 – Vancouver, Canada – Duane Smith, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada is in Vancouver, British Columbia attending the Northern Contaminants Program Results Workshop. The NCP Results Workshop, held every other year, is the main...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
PARIS, France (December 8, 2015) – The governments of Nunavut (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark) and the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) released a joint statement on climate change at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 6, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
December 6, 2015 – Paris, France – Okalik Eegeesiak, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is the Head of the Inuit Delegation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 21 in Paris and has been advocating on behalf of Inuit. Work on the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 3, 2015 | 2015, Press Releases
December 3, 2015 – Washington, D.C. – Duane Smith, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada is in Washington D.C. discussing the future of Central Arctic Ocean fisheries with the Arctic Five countries (Canada, Russia, United States, Denmark and Norway)....